A thanks to one guests reviewers concerns, I decided to retun my focus here. I have alot of other fanfics I haven't finished yet, so it's hard to keep working on them all. Fortunately, I finished my longest fanfic yet a few days ago, so I have more time on my hands. I am also planning on editing some things in this story soon. Mostly just adding years to the dates that don't have them, and some of the dates that weren't listed. And a few other small improvements. And a few larger ones. Also, I should add this is the end of the first arc.

Anonymous Fanz doesn't own anything except his versions of Inertia, Starfire, and Cyborg. Their names are copyright to DC Comics.

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The Ship: July 16, 2016; 10:29

Beast Boy, Cyborg, Superboy, Ms. Martian, and Red Tornado investigate the recent explosion. "What do you think did this?" Beast Boy asked. "Based on my scanners readings, the console was damaged by something on the Ship." Cyborg replied. He plugged his arm into the damaged console. "I'm going to see if I can access what's left of it to open the doors." After a few seconds, the door opened partially. "It would appear the doors have been intentionally sabotaged to prevent anyone from seeing what is inside that room." Red Tornado noted. Cyborg grabbed the doors and forced them open with his bare hands. Suddenly the ship was shaken by a loud noise. Cyborg look at the scanner on his arm. "Another explosion, in the hangers." Cyborg said. "I think this was a distraction!" Beast boy noted. "We have to hurry!" Ms. Martian added as she flew towards the hanger.

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The Ship's hanger: July 16, 2016; 10:30

Inertia and Kid Flash run into the hanger immediately after the explosion. They both look at the modified Reach drone. "What is that?" Inertia asked. The drone sent a ray of light, which scanned them both. "Bart "Impulse" Allen. Level 2 threat; Inertia. Level 3 target." The drone scanned the room to locate anyone else that might be present, to find nothing. "Seeking critical components: M-7 processor." The two speedsters realized the drone was Inertia's android. "Wait, I'm a target?" Inertia asked. Ms. Martian telekinetically threw a fuel barrel at the drone. The drone used it's shields to protect itself. The Drone scanned the area the barrel was thrown from. Beast Boy turned into a bird to fly above the drone. He transformered into a gorilla, and smashed the drone into the ground as he dropped on top of it. The drone attempted to fly, but it was badly damaged. "Careful. I think that used to be my android." Inertia warned. "Noted." Garfield replied, as he changed back to human form. The drone began repairining itself by pulling parts of a Grodanian fighter towards it. "I did not know it xould do that." Inertia said. The drone fired laser cannons at Red Tornado. He flew out of the way. "How do we fight that thing?" Kid Flash asked. "I don't know. I designed it to evolve as it absorbs more tech." Inertia said. "There has to be some weakness." Connor said.

Inertia thought for only a second. But for him, it was much longer. "Why should you help them?" He asked himself. The Kid Flash replacement who never trusted you. A cyborg who blames you for the accident that created him. Most of them don't trust him. But some of them do. As apposed to his creation, which sees him as a threat now and is probably working for the Cyrptic, which seems to have been manipulating him. He needed to earn their trust. And this was a chance to do that. "We need to evolve it!" Inertia exclaimed. "What?! That's the opposite of weakening it!" KF yelled. "It's a learning computer. When it absorb's something, it gets data from it. It wants the Max-7 because it gives it the ability to learn fast enough to let it absorb potentially anything with out damaging itself. If we get it to absorb something to advanced for it to handle, it might damage itself instead." Inertia explained. "We just need to find away to make it absorb something more advanced than anything it's absorbed." Cyborg said. "Like what?" Beast Boy asked. "Like the ship itself!" Inertia said. "It's bigger, and more advanced than anything it's become a part of! And it's alien tech, which it can't absorb to much of." Inertia began thinking about how he could trick the drone into becoming part of the entire ship. "No, it's too risky. If this doesn't work, we won't be able to stop it."

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The Ship's halls: July 16th, 2016; 10:31

The drone is blown across the halls by Red Tornado. It smashs into a wall, before scanning him. "Red Tornado. Level 2 threat." The drone fires missiles which are easily deflected by Red Tornado's winds. telekineticly slams the drone onto the ground. Starfire flies into the halls. "I heard the explosions. Are we under attack?" She asked. The drone scans the two aliens. "M'gaan M'orzz. Level 2 threat; Koriand'r. Level 2 threat." The drone began modifying itself, giving itself new weapons. It created a flamethrower, which it fired at Megan. Through the flames did not touch her, they did weaken her, causing her to pass out. The drone reconfigured it's shields to magnetize Red Tornado, leaving him stuck to the ceiling, and temporarily disabled. Starfire blasted the drone while it was vulnerable, sending it out of a window. Doors on that window closed, preventing anyone from being sucked out of it or losing oxygen. Inertia and Kid Flash sped into the room. "Where did the drone go?" Kid Flash asked. Starfire gave them an answer, but they didn't understand a word she said. "Ms. M is down. No more psychic translator." Inerta explained. "How did this happen?" Kid Flash asked. "The AI learns from it's enemies. It looks like it developed countermeasures to fight them better." Inertia said. "What should we do?" Bart asked.

"Learn how to fight him better. What do we know about it's current body?" Inertia knew the key to defeating the drone could only be found by understanding it's origin's. "It looks like one of the Reach beetle drones. But it's been modified with alot of other tech." KF answered. Suddenly, he realized something. "If it is a modified Reach drone, it could be extremely dangerous. Those things were as powerful as a beetle warrior. The only reason we beat them so easily is because they aren't as smart. But put your AI in one—" Before Bart could finish, Inertia realized what he was saying. "And it could probably take out the entire league! If it get's the M-7, it would be unstoppable!" He began hoping that Cryptic was on their side. If not, then they have a poweful enemy. One stronger than any of them have faced. The others caught up with them. "Where did the drone go?" Cyborg asked. "We don't know. Only Starfire saw where it went, but she isn't speaking english right now." Kid Flash explained. "Cyborg looked at the destroyed window. "Was that window broken before?" He asked. The speedsters realized that the drone must gone out of the window. "It's probably going to try to get back inside the ship somehow." Kid Flash said. "Well, it won't be easy. The whole ship locked down after the window broke. The only way in is if it blasts it's way in." Cyborg said, while monitering the ships status. "I think I know a way to destroy the android without giving it the ship." Inertia said.

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The Control room: July 16th, 2016; 11:06

The Drone smashes through a window and flies toward a console. It connects a cord to it, to access the Ship's systems. "Target located." The Drone identifies the Max-7 and now knows where it is on the ship. "I can't let you leave with it." Inertia said, as he entered the room. "Identified. Inertia, Level 3 target." The drone prepared it's weapons Inertia. "Why are you against me? I made you!" He said. The drone opened a segment, revealing the Cryptic. It began accessing Inertia's mind.

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Inertia could see the future he came from. "Your mission was to build the android capable of preventing the events which lead to your existence. You have completed this task. Now, you must help them to make sure they are successful in preventing these events." The Cryptic explained. "That didn't answer my question." Inertia said. "I answered the questions you were unwilling to ask yourself." The Cryptic replied. Inertia knew what it meant. "So why are you attacking them?" Inertia asked. "My reasoning is beyond your current understanding." The Cryptic answered. "Why do you always do that? When I ask a question, you basically tell me to solve it myself." Inertia asked. "That is my function." The Cryptic answered. "I don't know if anything you told me about me is real." Inertia said, as he pulled off his mask. "I've only shown you what you need to know." The Cryptic said. "Why do I look like Wally West? Why do I have his powers? Is anything you've shown me real?" Inertia asked. "If you know the questions, you can find the answers." The Cryptic replied. "What does that mean?" Inertia asked, irritated. "Everything you've been shown was to give you everything you need to know to find out everything you need to know." The Cryptic released their Psychic link.

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The drone fired at Inertia after he was released. He moved out of the way at superspeed. "Target lost: Reacquiring." The drone search the room, but it couldn't see him anywhere. Cyborg fired missles at the drone again. It modified it's shields to protect against them by magnetically repelling them. Beast Boy transformered into a rhino, and rammed the Drone. It was then punched by Superboy, causing it to crash into the ceiling. The drone modified it's sheilding to electrify anything that makes contact with it. Starfire hit the drone with a barrage of energy blasts, destroying it's shields. When the drone began preparing it's new counter measures, it's systems started malfunctioning. "You can't adapt to counter all of us." Inertia said. The drone crashed into a wall, as it prepared to self-destruct. "We should probably get out of here." Inertia said. The team left the Control room before it exploded.

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The Control room: July 16th, 2016; 18:56

Aqualad, Nightwing, Superboy, and Tigress had Inertia meet them in the now destroyed control room. "You wanted to see me?" He asked, as he walked in. "Today, you have proven, not only that you can be trusted like you told us, but also that you deserve that trust. You could have helped your android but instead, you helped us defeat it." Aqualad said. "Before we destroyed it, the drone revealed it had the Cryptic." Inertia said. "We know. When it constructed itself at S.T.A.R. Labs, the Cryptic was identified as the cause." Nightwing explained. "The Cyrptic psychically communicated with me. It didn't tell me why it was attacking, but it explained some of the things it did." Inertia said. "What do you mean?" Connor asked. "Why it doesn't give me a straight answer to any question? Why it didn't explain my origins clearly? Why it can't explain itself? It's because it's not supposed to. It wants me to figure these things out without it." Inertia explained. "So what are you going to do now?" Tigress asked. "The only things it directly told me was the stuff about the future. That's what I should look into first, if I want to find out where I came from." Inertia replied, before speeding away.

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